Leave it to our illustrious public schools:
"At graduation the last two years, Poudre High decided to throw out the Star Spangled Banner in favor of the new World Anthem. Never heard of the World Anthem? Well, here are a few verses:
"Throughout the world, We sing our praise to peace, Our bond of love, Will serve us endlessly. May we sing loud, To fire our hopes and joys, And let us now, Believe in trust, Eternally for all."
To create such banal mush, the composers used a computer program to link notes and words from 193 national anthems into one conglomeration?kind of like bad goulash.
Ed Goodman, one of anthem?s promoters, said the song is "very, very sophisticated; it took years of work to accomplish." But not everyone agrees. Gail Wagner, whose daughter was a part of the graduating class, called the anthem "an insipid little song." I could not agree more.
In addition to being bad poetry, a comparison of the World Anthem to the Star Spangled Banner reveals the core difference. The World Anthem?s drivel exalts the "earth?s foundations ris[ing] to call us all one" and other such meaningless pabulum.
But our national anthem tells a story?actually, a story within a story. In the verse we all know, Key describes the assault on Fort McHenry, but then he writes about the greater story at work?a people?s desire to live freely. The final verse says it well, and unlike certain leftist judges in California, Key recognizes the role God plays in such freedom."
"Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: ?In God is our trust?"
"The star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
http://www.focusoneducation.com/parents/articles/a0002041.html
"At graduation the last two years, Poudre High decided to throw out the Star Spangled Banner in favor of the new World Anthem. Never heard of the World Anthem? Well, here are a few verses:
"Throughout the world, We sing our praise to peace, Our bond of love, Will serve us endlessly. May we sing loud, To fire our hopes and joys, And let us now, Believe in trust, Eternally for all."
To create such banal mush, the composers used a computer program to link notes and words from 193 national anthems into one conglomeration?kind of like bad goulash.
Ed Goodman, one of anthem?s promoters, said the song is "very, very sophisticated; it took years of work to accomplish." But not everyone agrees. Gail Wagner, whose daughter was a part of the graduating class, called the anthem "an insipid little song." I could not agree more.
In addition to being bad poetry, a comparison of the World Anthem to the Star Spangled Banner reveals the core difference. The World Anthem?s drivel exalts the "earth?s foundations ris[ing] to call us all one" and other such meaningless pabulum.
But our national anthem tells a story?actually, a story within a story. In the verse we all know, Key describes the assault on Fort McHenry, but then he writes about the greater story at work?a people?s desire to live freely. The final verse says it well, and unlike certain leftist judges in California, Key recognizes the role God plays in such freedom."
"Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: ?In God is our trust?"
"The star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
http://www.focusoneducation.com/parents/articles/a0002041.html
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